We’ve all heard the saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”  It’s saying that we stand by and live by, a saying that has inspired our (meaning this blog) virtual existence.  We were given (or earned…however you look at it) a bad economy where we have been forced to change the way we think, live, spend, earn, and do.  It’s a saying that has inspired greatness and creativity beyond measure as well as hope without bounds.

We are all given lemons in our days, some more than others and with no explanation why.   Lemons that come in a form of heartache or despair, an unwarranted tragedy or a physical ailment or financial misfortune.  Sometimes those lemons are deserved and thrown with a great deal of force and others seem to fall from the sky.  But, for whatever reason they come and sometimes they tend to stay.

While I think that I’ve been dealt my fair share of lemon days, some deserved and some are not, and have dealt some lemons of my own, I can always make the choice to do my best to squeeze a little harder, add a bit of sugar and turn them into something sweet.

Today, I’m making lemonade.